Quick Hit: We need to kill the term Fiscally Conservative, and replace it with Fiscally Responsible. Because Fiscal Conservatives are never Fiscally Responsible, and its Fiscal Responsibility that we need. That means not cutting off your source of funding with tax cuts, not cutting off programs that provide social services and ignoring the negative long term economic impact. It means understanding that when you screw the poor and middle class you destroy the basis of our economy – which thrives on consumption. It means you don’t put the prejudices of social conservatives ahead of fiscal discipline. You cut the expensive programs where there’s waste even if its the hard choice politically. That means cutting the military budget. It means refraining from entering into new conflicts when we can’t afford the one’s we are still embroiled in.